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Angela Merkel opens Holocaust art show with warning on antisemitism

January 27, 2016

The Guardian | Agence-France Presse:

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has opened a major exhibition in Berlin featuring works by Jewish concentration camp prisoners, as she pledged to combat a feared rise in antisemitism in Germany linked to a record influx of refugees. The show, Art from the Holocaust, brings together 100 works on loan from Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial. They were created in secret by 50 artists between 1939 and 1945 while they were confined to the camps or ghettos… Read more

Image: Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at an image from the Theresienstadt concentration camp during a preview of Art from the Holocaust in Berlin. Photograph: Handout/Bundesregierung via Getty Images